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mistermagic
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This station has a really good sound. Opinions?
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abcparamount
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Unless they get a good website up and running, and start streaming, they will just be pissing in the wind.
abcparamount said:Unless they get a good website up and running, and start streaming, they will just be pissing in the wind.
Do they have any live personalities?? I can hear them at night here in Ohio. At about 9:00 PM EDT I hear 'Dr Boggie". Also, what is their program schedule?
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abcparamount
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It does have a good sound! Dr. Boogie plays some very "different" music, meaning songs you don't usually hear on commercial radio stations. Odd doo wop songs, great old time rockin' instrumentals, and such. It's an oldies station that sometimes has live personalities, and sometimes is automated. Their schedule is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with only a tiny percentage of that devoted to "talk". There's a wrestling show on Saturday mornings, and Jackie McCoy and Mad Maynard Saturday afternoons, where they speak to listeners at length, but pretty much it's a straight ahead oldies music station. The "sound" is very retro, and jingles kind of brash, and loud. It's a hoot to listen to this legitimate "Pirate" station. They break all the rules and brag about it, but it's a lot of fun, and everywhere I go in St. Louis, people are either talking about it, or listening. It's only 5000 watts, so I'm surprised you can get it all the way in Ohio at night. That's way cool.
mimo said:1430 has always carried reasonably well. I used to hear it every night in southeast Iowa when I lived there. They had a very steady signal.
1430 for those of you who are out of the market and don't know was once the legendary WIL...While it has always had great skywave, they have signal problems in the West part of the metro at night.
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abcparamount
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What a shame. Trouble getting it on the East Side as well after sundown. Guess the signal shoots north and south then. What stations are they protecting with the nighttime array?
It wouldn't take them much to LMA a couple of AM's east of the River and West of SayLouie...To bad most of the ones they could get are old daytimers with no night coverage.. ie...Highland, WEW, etc... But, if for Disney, 1260 does well on the east... What would work west? Any dreamers?
There unfortunately isn't much to the west, because the Western burbs really didn't start booming until the last 25 years or so, well after the heyday of AM. I had hoped that St. Charles County's lone AM station, the former KIRL at 1460 might have fell into ownership that would do some sort of local "Westplex" format with it when the previous owner filed bankrupcy, but instead it is an affiliate of the "Covenant Network" which mostly airs programming from the EWTN network.
Other than 1460, the only other AM that serves the west well is KWRE at 730, but they are quite successful with their Classic Country/News format. The Franklin County AMs, KWMO and KLPW could likely do technical upgrades to put a better signal into St. Charles county, but KWMO at 1350 is a paltry 500 watts that despite being located in St. Charles county, doesn't even cover half of it well, and 1220 KLPW, which used to be pretty clear in St. Charles, but the ground system is shot.
WEW had a Construction Permit to boost up to 10,000 Watts, and add 200 Watts Nighttime, but Birach let the construction permit expire without upgrading the station, which would have required construction of an extra tower.
Disney has really put a lot of coin into re engineering the former WIBV in Belleville, the station was formerly 5kW days/1kW nights, and since being under Disney's ownership has grown to an impressive 20kW day/5kW night signal. Still poor in St. Charles at night, but booms as loud as 550, 630, and 1120 during the day. During the day, the station travels amazingly far, playing clear as a bell in Keokuk, IA.
Other than 1460, the only other AM that serves the west well is KWRE at 730, but they are quite successful with their Classic Country/News format. The Franklin County AMs, KWMO and KLPW could likely do technical upgrades to put a better signal into St. Charles county, but KWMO at 1350 is a paltry 500 watts that despite being located in St. Charles county, doesn't even cover half of it well, and 1220 KLPW, which used to be pretty clear in St. Charles, but the ground system is shot.
WEW had a Construction Permit to boost up to 10,000 Watts, and add 200 Watts Nighttime, but Birach let the construction permit expire without upgrading the station, which would have required construction of an extra tower.
Disney has really put a lot of coin into re engineering the former WIBV in Belleville, the station was formerly 5kW days/1kW nights, and since being under Disney's ownership has grown to an impressive 20kW day/5kW night signal. Still poor in St. Charles at night, but booms as loud as 550, 630, and 1120 during the day. During the day, the station travels amazingly far, playing clear as a bell in Keokuk, IA.
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abcparamount
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What about KRFT, 1190? Is their current nighttime signal a joke, or does it actually work? How much would a follow through on their CP cost, and would that give them west side coverage? Has this station ever shown up in the ratings at all since it signed on? Looks strong in daytime on paper.
KRFT's daytime signal will not change with the new CP. I can barely pick up 1190 during the day in St. Charles due to their extremely directional signal. Big League Broadcasting would have to build an additional 6 tower array to add 6500 Watts nighttime power. Current 22 Watt night power barely makes it across the inner city. The station has to be very directional to protect stations in Kansas City and Fort Wayne, IN, among others.
The upgrade of 1190 AM of course would not have been made possible, of course, without WOWO Fort Wayne, IN downgrading their nighttime signal from 50kW down to 9.8kW a few years ago in order to allow then daytimer WLIB NYC to power up at night.
The upgrade of 1190 AM of course would not have been made possible, of course, without WOWO Fort Wayne, IN downgrading their nighttime signal from 50kW down to 9.8kW a few years ago in order to allow then daytimer WLIB NYC to power up at night.
abcparamount said:It does have a good sound! Dr. Boogie plays some very "different" music, meaning songs you don't usually hear on commercial radio stations. Odd doo wop songs, great old time rockin' instrumentals, and such. It's an oldies station that sometimes has live personalities, and sometimes is automated. Their schedule is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with only a tiny percentage of that devoted to "talk". There's a wrestling show on Saturday mornings, and Jackie McCoy and Mad Maynard Saturday afternoons, where they speak to listeners at length, but pretty much it's a straight ahead oldies music station. The "sound" is very retro, and jingles kind of brash, and loud. It's a hoot to listen to this legitimate "Pirate" station. They break all the rules and brag about it, but it's a lot of fun, and everywhere I go in St. Louis, people are either talking about it, or listening. It's only 5000 watts, so I'm surprised you can get it all the way in Ohio at night. That's way cool.
Yes, KZQZ is occasional audible during the late evening here in Ohio. Yes, I've noticed that Dr. Boogie is willing to play songs that even other true oldies
station won't even touch. That's what seems to make KZQZ pretty unique among true oldies radio stations. They play some music that you forgot you
forgot.
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abcparamount
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And they're bringing back CHICKENMAN! Talk about a blast from the past! Somebody's got his head on straight at that station.
Gee, wish they were streaming, anyone know if that's coming soon?
Around 1am this morning I was hearing them in the Terre Haute area.
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abcparamount
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Wow, that's way cool. About the streaming, scuttlebut is that they want the programming tweaked, and totally where they want it to be before they put it out for a national audience to critique. This is still a very new station that's only been on the air a few months. A little bird told me their night time ratings are excellent for the demo they are seeking to reach, with AM drive not far behind. According to my source, they are still refining the music clock. There are always growing pains with a start up station.
They must still be running the STA for 1250 watts non-directional to be heard in Indiana and Ohio at night, especially in Terre Haute that's right in a deep null towards Indy. Haven't they replaced the tower that went down a couple of summers ago????
vacuum tube said:They must still be running the STA for 1250 watts non-directional to be heard in Indiana and Ohio at night, especially in Terre Haute that's right in a deep null towards Indy. Haven't they replaced the tower that went down a couple of summers ago????
I just checked the FCC database and KZQZ has no current STA to run 1250 watts non-directional.
I do recall trying to hear KZQZ last Spring when they signed on the air but had no luck. Now, I can
occasional hear then in the late evenings here in Central Ohio. If they are running non-directional at
night, that may explain why I can hear them here in Ohio but I'm not sure. I just glad I can hear them
as they are a great oldies station. Hope they get an audio stream up and running.
gabigley1 said:I just checked the FCC database and KZQZ has no current STA to run 1250 watts non-directional.
Keep in mind that the FCC database doesn't always keep its STA's current. There have been several AM's broadcasting on FM translators with legitimate STA's that didn't show in the database for quite some time.
I do recall trying to hear KZQZ last Spring when they signed on the air but had no luck. Now, I can
occasional hear then in the late evenings here in Central Ohio. If they are running non-directional at
night, that may explain why I can hear them here in Ohio but I'm not sure. I just glad I can hear them
as they are a great oldies station. Hope they get an audio stream up and running.
I have to think they're running non-directional as you shouldn't have any chance of hearing them in Ohio. The signal is almost nonexistent after dark to the east or west. In fact, I remember listening to it a few years ago when it was doing "Real Oldies" as WRTH and losing it just outside of Chesterfield on the bridge from St. Louis into St. Charles County as soon as it switched to nighttime power.
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